Routine Activity and Rational Choice: Volume 5 (Advances in Criminological Theory)

by Marcus Felson (Editor), Marcus Felson (Editor), Clarke Ronald V (Editor)

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  Illustrated
  2004

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  Two new criminological approaches are defined and applied to categories of crime. Routine activity analyzes the criminal event, and avoids motivations and psychology as topics for discussion, whereas rational choice approaches crime as purposive behavior designed to meet the offender's commonplace needs, such as money, status, sex, and excitement.